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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper: a trustless peer-to-peer cash system using a proof-of-work timestamp server, hash-chained blocks, and Merkle trees to prevent double-spending.
Blockchain vs Traditional Timestamping Methods (ScoreDetect Blog)
ScoreDetect blog article contrasting blockchain timestamping with traditional TSA/RFC 3161 timestamping across security, speed, scalability, cost, immutability, transparency, Merkle-tree batching, hybrid systems, and legal admissibility.
Stellar Developer Documentation
Official Stellar Development Foundation developer documentation covering the Stellar network fundamentals: accounts, transactions and operations, ledgers, assets and lumens, fees, and the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP).
Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules (BIP 341)
BIP 341 defines Bitcoin Taproot: SegWit version 1 outputs using Schnorr signatures and a Merkle-branch script commitment (MAST) with key-path and script-path spending.
The Inventor of Blockchain Would Like a Better Bitcoin
Blockworks interview with cryptographic-timestamping pioneer Scott Stornetta on Bitcoin's achievements and flaws: incomplete decentralization, mining incentives, lack of monetary privacy, and immutable record-keeping against AI deepfakes.
Towards More Reliable Bitcoin Timestamps (arXiv)
Short paper by Szalachowski (2018) showing Bitcoin block timestamps are miner-manipulable, and proposing external trusted timestamping authorities and SSL/TLS reference times to bound a block to a provable time window.
Tsunami of Blockchain Technology and Patents: A Strategic Data-Analytic Overview
ABA Jurimetrics (Fall 2023) data-analytic survey of global blockchain patent filing trends, the post-Bitcoin surge and crypto-winter cooling, US and IBM leadership, and Section 101 patent-eligibility strategy.